The Face on the Barroom Floor
1923•1h 0m•7.5•Released
Drama
As a derelict paints the face of a girl on a barroom floor, the plot is developed in a series of flashbacks: Robert Stevens, an artist engaged to marry Marion, a society girl, becomes charmed with a fisherman's daughter who poses for him. The society girl's brother brings dishonor upon the fisherman's daughter, and when she commits suicide the artist shields the brother. Stevens is blamed by his fiancée, who terminates their engagement. The artist becomes a derelict and is wrongfully imprisoned. Eventually Stevens is exonerated and reunited with Marion.
Director
John Ford
Writer
G. Marion Burton, Eugene B. Lewis
Studio
Fox Film Corporation
Cast
Henry B. Walthall
Robert Stevens
Ruth Clifford
Marion Trevor
Ralph Emerson
Dick Van Vleck
Frederick Sullivan
Thomas Waring
Alma Bennett
Lottie
Norval MacGregor
Governor
Michael Dark
Henry Drew
Gus Saville
Fisherman
Production
Company
Fox Film Corporation
Producer
William Fox
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